--- description: Test your knowledge of famous women in history with this TIME quiz. title: Quiz: How Well Do You Know Women's History? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Quiz: How Well Do You Know Women's History? by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/) and [David Johnson](/author/dave-johnson/) Mar 18, 2016 3:33 PM CUT by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/) and [David Johnson](/author/dave-johnson/) Mar 18, 2016 3:33 PM CUT When [Women’s History Month](http://time.com/4238999/womens-history-month-history/ "undefined") rolls around every [March](http://time.com/4252992/american-women-history-places/ "undefined"), much of the attention tends to concentrate on a handful of our impressive female forebears—but they did not change the world alone. Less discussed are women like the tennis champion who also served as a World War II spy, or the Austrian movie star who invented the technology that paved the way for wi-fi. Test your knowledge of famous women in history with these questions about the [activists](http://time.com/4213751/septima-clark-civil-rights-movement/ "undefined"), [entertainers](http://time.com/4251201/clara-rockmore-theremin/ "undefined"), entrepreneurs and scientists who helped shape the 20th century. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4261355/quiz-womens-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4261355/quiz-womens-history/"},"headline":"Quiz: How Well Do You Know Women's History?","datePublished":"2016-03-18T15:33:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T12:03:48.588Z","description":"From the inventor of frequency-hopping technology to the first major-party black candidate for president","url":"https://time.com/4261355/quiz-womens-history/","keywords":["photography","Icons"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4261355/quiz-womens-history/","name":"Quiz: How Well Do You Know Women's History?"}}]}] ```